Understanding depression and distress among medical students

JAMA

Volumn 304, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1231-1233

  Roberts, Laura Weiss ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; PHYSICIAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT; PROFESSIONALISM; QUALITY OF LIFE; SUICIDE; WELLBEING; BURNOUT; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHICS; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MENTAL STRESS; NOTE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES;

BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; DATA COLLECTION; DEPRESSION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956632510     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2010.1347     Document Type: Editorial

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